On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:32:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
It seems that “apt upgrade” clears “apt-mark hold” (in buster, so apt
1.8.2 or thereabouts). APT does not install recommended packages
which are marked as held even if new packages with new Recommends:
dependencies on the held package are installed, which is a useful
feature. But it does not work reliably due to the behavior of “apt
upgrade”.
Would you consider the clearing of package hold information a bug?
dpkg clears holds for non-installed packages after performing installs
- this is not an apt bug.
* Julian Andres Klode:
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:32:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
It seems that “apt upgrade” clears “apt-mark hold” (in buster, so apt
1.8.2 or thereabouts). APT does not install recommended packages
which are marked as held even if new packages with new Recommends:
dependencies on the held package are installed, which is a useful
feature. But it does not work reliably due to the behavior of “apt
upgrade”.
Would you consider the clearing of package hold information a bug?
dpkg clears holds for non-installed packages after performing installs
- this is not an apt bug.
Aha! Is it a dpkg bug then?
On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 14:33:06 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Julian Andres Klode:
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:32:02PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
It seems that “apt upgrade” clears “apt-mark hold” (in buster, so apt
1.8.2 or thereabouts). APT does not install recommended packages
which are marked as held even if new packages with new Recommends:
dependencies on the held package are installed, which is a useful
feature. But it does not work reliably due to the behavior of “apt
upgrade”.
Would you consider the clearing of package hold information a bug?
dpkg clears holds for non-installed packages after performing installs
- this is not an apt bug.
Aha! Is it a dpkg bug then?
Yes, a regression that is already fixed in master, will be included in
the next dpkg release:
<https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=c89140d8bfe69637e50d25949c655cd03d19c6ab>
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